Claude Malleville

Claude Malleville , born and died in Paris (1597 - 1647) is a French poet, one of the first members of the French Academy in 1634.

Its life and its work

The life of Claude Malleville is hardly known but by this note of its contemporary Paul Pellisson:

Claude de Malleville was Parisian. His/her father had been officer in the house of Retz, and his/her mother was of good family of Paris. He studied extremely well with the college, and had the extremely delicate spirit. Was put it to inform oneself in the businesses in a secretary of the king names Potiers, who was in finances; but it hardly remained there, by the inclination which it had with the humanities. It made knowledge with Mr. Porchères-Laugiers, which gave it to the marshal of Bassompierre. It was a long time near this lord, in the capacity as secretary, but without having there that very little employment, and as it had much ambition, it was bored some, and requested it to approve that it left it to be with the cardinal of Bérulle, which was then in favor. But there not having made its deals better, it turned over to its first Master, to which it rendered much services in his prison, and which while having left, and having been restored in its load of colonel of the Suisses, the chancery gave him which was attached there. This employment was worth to him much, and in little time it gains: 20000 ecu S. It employed of it a part with a load of Secrétaire of the king, with which it was made provide: on what there are in its works some worms with Mr. Chancellor. He had accompanied Mr. de Bassompierre on a his journey by England; but not in that of Switzerland. He died old of a little more than fifty years. He was of small size, strong spindly; its hair was black, and its eyes also, which it had rather weak. What one estimated more in him, it was its spirit, and the genius which it had for the worms. There is a volume of its Poésies , printed after its death, which has all of the spirit, of fire, a beautiful turn of worms, much of delicacy and softness, and mark great fruitfulness; but there is little of it, this seems to me, of completed well.

Member of the circle of Conrart and Miss de Gournay, accustomed Hotel of Rambouillet, Malleville contributed ten poetries, which all were very appreciated, to the Guirlande of Julie . Its most famous sonnet, Beautiful Matineuse , was composed at the time of a poetic tournament with Vincent Voiture on a topic borrowed from the Latin poet Catulus, then taken again successively by Clément Marot, Joachim of Bellay, François I {{er}}, Annibal Caro and Tristan the Hermit. Some of its poems were appreciated with half-word by Boileau. According to the judgment of Emile Faguet, Claude Malleville was “quite simply a good workman in worms. ”

Two poems

Publications

Almerinde (1646) and Stratonice (1649). Translated from Italian of Luca Assarino by Pierre d' Audiguier the young person and Claude de Malleville.
Poetries of the sior of Malleville (1649) Text in line
Various poetries of the Academy. Various sonnets, stanzas, elegies, songs, madrigaux, epigrams & rondos (1664) Text in line
Memories of the marshal of Bassompierre, contenans history of its life (4 volumes, 1723)
poetic Works , critical edition published by Raymond Ortali, Didier, Paris, 1976.

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